White Hart House

White Hart House is a house that was later used as a public house, dating from the 14th to the 17th century and built in several phases. The medieval core of the building is designed in an H-plan. There were alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries, mainly affecting the range that faces the street. The structure is timber framed, with the facade covered in painted brick and the rest rendered. The roof facing Cross Street is slated, while the other sections have old clay plain tiles.

The house has two storeys and an attic. The front range consists of three bays, featuring paired 6x6-paned sash windows in flush frames, all set under cambered brick arches. In the center, there is an unaltered early 20th-century public house front with pilasters that support a pulvinated frieze. This includes a panelled stall riser with single-pane windows above and a matching double-leaf door. On either side of the central entrance are identical doorways that are recessed under semi-circular brick arches, each with a 6-panel door. The extreme left and right also have paired sash windows, with the leftmost featuring 2x2 panes. A wrought iron bracket is present for an inn sign. The building has two cross-axial stacks and two gabled wings that project to the rear, one of which has a heavy axial stack.

Inside, most of the frame is concealed. The 14th-century rear wing on the right has a plain crown-post roof with thick two-way bracing and a face-pegged splayed scarf joint at the collar purlin. The former service wing on the left has three bays, with the narrow rear bay designed for a chimney. There is one original knee brace visible on the ground floor ceiling beam, and a first-floor cupboard features an arched head. The original crown-post roof has mostly been lost, except for one rafter truss that appears to be in situ. The hall contains mid-16th-century moulded cross-beams and joists, with one narrow bay added in the 19th century in a matching style when the room was extended to the left. The roof over the hall was reconstructed around the 18th century, reusing old rafters, some of which are sooted.